Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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gence as the messages that run along the telegraph wire to the birds that perch on it. Few men learn the highest use of books. After life-long study many a man discovers too late that to have had the philosopher's stone availed nothing without the philosopher to use it. Many a scholarly life, stretched like a talking wire to bring the wisdom of antiquity into communion with the present, can at last yield us no better news than the true accent of a Greek verse, or the translation of some filthy nothing scrawled on the walls...
Question: "Resolved, That the United States should take immediate steps toward complete ownership and management of the telegraph...
Question: "Resolved, That the United States should take immediate steps toward complete ownership and management of the telegraph...
...Government ownership of telegraph lines is bad, since (1) Presumption is against centralization of private interests in the hands of the government. (2) All the people would be taxed for the benefit of the comparatively small number that would use the telegraph. (a) Probable inefficiency of government management. (b) Clamor for extension of lines to an unprofitable extent. (3) It creates a vast number of federal offices, resulting in an extension of the "Spoils System." (4) It exposes political secrets to the use of the party in power...
...government should not take immediate steps toward assuming ownership of the telegraph, for (1) Civil Service Reform must precede any such action. (2) Western Union Co. is giving cheap and efficient service. (3) Other alternatives must first be examined. (a) Establishment of government postal telegraph offices, and the letting out of contract for carrying messages to telegraph companies. (b) Government control of telegraph by interstate commission...